You have noticed some slight changes made over the last few days. Some downtime, removal of the skins section and all the skins, and maybe a few other minor changes. It's all been in preporation for the launch of a new site; TheSkinDrop.com.

Yup, Suzanne has invited me to Popfly. Thank you Suzanne.

I checked my email this morning before heading of to work and I was greeted that wonderful email. To be honest I was a bit dubious about it's legitimacy at first as it was sent from an obscure Hotmail address, genuine it was.

LiveSide has got three informative posts on the going-ons of one of the most anticipated Windows Live services, Windows Live Folders, the posts can be found here:

The Q2 Xbox 360 update is here and among all the new features it brings I came across a nice little added extra; Posting to Jaiku or Twitter from the 360.

Maybe it's not the most exciting thing in the world, but for some people it may become a huge thing, the ability to update all your followers/friends exactly what you're up to in the game your playing, the ability to put out a global invite to play with you, etc.

This is how you do it:

This morning when I went to check out the latest news on NewsGator Online I was presented with the option to test out the new NewsGator Online Beta. Being the early adopter sort that I am how could I pass up a Beta?

I have to say it's a huge improvement; a nice new clean and simple design, vastly improved speeds and usability, a few extra features including the ability to send news links via IM and many more improvements.

microBlogging seems to be getting a lot of hype; the most hyped microBlog being Twitter.com.

So what is microBlogging, you ask? The best analogy I have seen is by a Microsoft blogger (Omar Shahine?):

Email is to Instant Messaging as Blogging is to Twitter